The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Bingham Not Re-employed by the Con-
vict Lessees- Two Men Mistaken for
Train Wreckers Near Americus and
Fired On-Some Remarkable Cotton
Picking in Worth County.
GEORGIA.
About 1000 good-sized watermelons can
be got into a freight car.
The sweet potato crop of Talbot county
promises an unusually large yield.
The Mayor and Council, of Albany, will
not allow the Salvation Army to parade
there.
The editor of the Camilla Clarion has
found time between his editorial labors to
help raise fourteen children.
The insurance rate on dwellings at Au-
gusta has been reduced - per cent. since
the organization of a paid fire department.
The negroes of Sandersville have organ
lied their second Baptist church, and have
erected a temporary building on lot given
them.
The Gainesville Volunteers are holding
fair this week. to raise money to pay for
their handsome uniforms recently pur-
chased
N. O'Brien, of Hawkinsville steps to the
front with a hen egg weighing three ounces
troy weight and measuring 80 inches in
circumference.
Two negroes, one on Pine Island and one
at Quicker Station, Dougherty county, were.
bitten by mad hound belonging to Capt.
John P. Fort, on Saturday.
One of the German fresco painters, named
FRITZ, fell from the scatfolding at exGov.
McDaniels new residence at Monroe, last
Thursday, and seriously sprained one arm
Griffin will soon have large factory for
the manufacture of doors, sash, blinds, etc.
Brick for the foundation of this factory is
now on the grounds and work will COM
menoe early next week.
At Cumming there is good deal of COM
plant about cotton not fruiting. Numbers
of stalks have no bolls on them, and then
some of the finest stalks do not have more
than three or four bolls.
At Hampton Mrs. James w Edwards
was seriously hurt by her horse backing the
buggy, in which she was riding, off the Ed
wards mill bridge last Friday. Mrs. Ed
wards is more than 70 years Of age.
At Macon, Wednesday, all the perishable
property of the R. F. Voolfolk estate was
sold by Administrator Chambliss, The
things sold all brought fine prices and in
the aggregate will amount to a considerable
sum.
The presentments Of the Hall county
grand jury last Saturday brought out some
interesting matters The former Tax Col
lector, J. NJ. Chamber, is $4,000 short in his
accounts. The county does not owe So 900
all told.
Gov, Gordon has signed the resolution
recently passed by the General Assembly
confirming and approving the action of the
executive in making the sale of the bonds
of the Spartanburg and Ashville railroad
held by the State.
The statement that ex-whipping boss, c.
C. Bingham, had been employed by the con-
vict camp lessees as general superinten-
dent of the railroad work, with the same
compensation as before, turns out to be in
correct. He is in the employ of the Geor-
gia Midland railroad.
The eldest son, a young man Just grown
into manhood. of the Rev. G. F. Taylor. a
Baptist minister of Mitchell county, was
knocked off a wagon loaded with cotton, on
last Saturday, and, it is feared, seriously, if
not fatally, hurt by the falling of pine
limb across his body.
The cotton of Mitchell county is still being
rapidly picked out, ginned and sold Up to
last Saturday night, Aug. 81, 1852 bales had
been weighed in two warehouses at Camilla
1t is thought that up to Sept. there would
have been picked out and sold from l, 500 to
1000 bales. 1t is rapid work for the month
of August
Every farmer who visits Jackson
crop. The wet weather some weeks ago
cut the crop almost one-half, and now al
most the entire top crop is being destroyed
by the boil worm. The prospect is exceed
ingly discouraging, and from present indi-
cations not over half crop will be made
A Mrs. Thirkield of Atlanta, has Joined
the Salvation Army, and is wearing
war cry" satchel suspended by
God is Love" strap. The woman
has Tod har hns
with typhoid fever, and three little chill
dren, one of whom is also ILL., The Oldest
child is Just 8 years of age. In the same
house lies Mrs. Thirkield's sister at the point
of death.
There is confined in the penitentiary at
present a convict named G. w. G. Wright,
who was sentenced for three years on ac-
count of the crime of voluntary man
Slaughter. Wright is from Monroe county.
and since his incarceration in the peni-
tertiary has not been able to do one days
work because of sickness 1t is believed
that Wright is in a dying condition and
the proper representation being made to the
Governor he has about decided to issue a
pardon discharging Wright from confne-
ment
John Westbrook, a would-be knight of
the road, attempted to rob two sons of L.
M johnson, in the Twenty-eighth district
the boys in wagon and seizing a fence
rail halted them and demanded their
money. He was told that they had no
money, when he said: well, den, pass
on. II you had money, you'd had to gin it
up or get yer necks broken He was COM
mitted by T. l.. Murray and sent to Jail in
Americas. He now claims that he was
Joking dc young men,"
j. H. Story, one of the most industrious
and consequently successful farmers of
Worth county, had a cotton picking con-
test on his place one day last week with good
results as follows: Story's l5-year-old boy,
All pounds; Story's 13-year-old girl, 3if
pounds; Stephens IMAM, 396 pounds: Tom
Reynolds manl, BOG pounds; Story's 10
year-old girl, 1856 pounds; Story's 9-year-old
girl, $50 pounds. Mr. Stephens, who is one
of the best cotton pickers in the county, did
not begin the race until after dinner, but
had picked leisurely all the morning.
A few evenings ago two gentlemen were
walking down the railroad at station be-
low Americas, one Of them to take the train.
They heard pistol shot and ball whistle
by, then another ball. One of the men drew
a pistol, saying: "If that's your game I'm
in" and saw man running up to them
AS soon as tho party was near enough to
recognize the gentlemen he begun to apollo
gize, saying he thought they were tramps
tampering with the rails of the road. It
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